[Capes]

This seems to be doing something. Time will tell, although it does seem to be stuck on 0% for a long time

[Capes]

Ha! Typical, as sson as i posted that it moved to 1% I could be in for a long ride, much appreciated for your help! ooh 2%!

[Console]

Presumably it is downloading in real-time, so 1% =~ 21 minutes.

For capturing the streams in Linux I found the following command to be useful:
mplayer -cache 2048 -bandwidth 9999999 http://wm-acl.bbc.co.uk/wms/radio1coyopa/radio_1_-_tuesday_0630.wma?MSWMExt=.asf -vc null -vo null -ao pcm:fast:waveheader:file=out.wav

You may find the dumpstream and dumpfile options a space-friendlier approach.

[Capes]

it wasn't that bad once it got going took just under an hour to download the entire show. Thankyou very much for all your help both comedydiv and Console and anyone else who dipped in! Much appreciated